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new to chicago (2015 baseball edition) Janet Kuypers 1997 poem, edited 4/26/15 I’m still new to this city I know, I know, I’ve been here for years but I haven’t gone to a Cubs game in years, I haben’t been to the White Sox game in even longer... but I haven’t gone to the Sears Tower Observatory since my Junior Prom but when I walk by the First Chicago building — that building downtown, right in the center of the Loop, with beams along the sides sloping up, parabolic pillars curving up to the sky when I walk by the First Chicago building I walk up along the side and lean up against one of the sloping pillars press my body against the cold concrete feel the cold against my chin, my breasts, by thighs and look up along the curve, stretching up towards the sky you know, these pillars look like race tracks and I could see something come rushing down that curve a matchbox car, a race car a marble, a baseball, a bowling ball a two-ton weight I see the speed, the power, and it almost makes me afraid to look up but every time I walk by the First Chicago building I do the same thing, I do this little ritual and it feels like the first time

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